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Chapter Two takes readers to the city limits, and then extra muros into the urban fringe, and considers a corpus of photographic representations of the outskirts, most notably in the zones and banlieues that surround France’s capital. The chapter examines a cluster of photographers like Patrick Tourneboeuf, Mathieu Pernot, and Camille Fallet among others, whose work orbits around the capital city’s atmosphere and seeks to recalibrate the way we see what Victor Hugo once called the “bastard countryside” of the suburbs. These views, considered within the context mainstream French culture’s flawed “peripheral vision,” make some of the most vernacular, marginal, and comparatively unseen sites around Paris’ iconic central core more conspicuous. In doing so, they render the peri-urban periphery more intelligible to a public that neither inhabits nor frequents these places and which has been conditioned to see them as a cliché. |
